Mary Wollstonecraft
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- Created on: 06-12-21 12:00
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- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Key Ideas
- Women are rational independent beings capable of reason
- In order to be free, women should enjoy full civil liberties and the opportunity to pursue a career
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
- Work = extension of liberalism into area taken for granted
- Way ahead of her time
- Believed women were no less rational than men, so deserved equal rights
- Work = extension of liberalism into area taken for granted
- Valued marriage as an institution
- Married to William Goodwin and died after giving birth to her dauggter Mary Shelley
- Insited marriage must be a partnership of equals
- Tyranny of male over female in relationships must be reistsed
- Limits to her ambition for women
- Recognised that as a result of biology, women are likely to opt for marriage and bringing up children
- No less virtuous than a career
- Wanted women to be able to choose between two paths
- No less virtuous than a career
- Exemplified the idea of equaliy of opportunity
- Recognised that as a result of biology, women are likely to opt for marriage and bringing up children
- Feminist?
- At the time, women lacked legal independence
- Husbands took control of every aspect of their life, including property
- Described women as 'slaves in a political and civil sense'
- Wanted women to have formal equality, rather than being economically dependent on men
- At the time, women lacked legal independence
- Key Ideas
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